Sometimes I Dream of Portland

Scraping the dinner table with credit cards

Picking and pulling the carpet apart

Just like a superstar!

Peppered with purple glitter

Held together by duct tape

There were no more parts and pieces

Games left to play

Tore tin foil beneath the bleachers

Forgot all those lullabies for broadway

in bootstraps and lingerie

Copycat corroding couches

No remotes for the screens

Sometimes I dream of Portland

The window only cracked a smidge

The titanic winds lapsed against the building

Rendered minuscule by traffic and tabloids

Skittering tires skid across the potholes

The pipers palms prance along the bassoon

Here too soon

I loved you exactly enough to lose you

These early days of the future

Sleeping in just to catch a glimpse in the dark

But the sight stung like eyedrops

Your always murky, dissipating in pratfalls

These tentpoles tense like tonsils

Despite the menace, stalling again for time

Weddings, birthdays, and funerals were never mine